Water problems
Stop fighting your water.
Most water complaints around Columbus trace back to a handful of causes. Find yours below, and the fix beside it. Scrubbing treats the symptom; treatment stops it arriving.
Problem by problem
What you see, and what fixes it
White crust and spotted dishes
Hard water. Calcium and magnesium picked up underground, in city water and wells alike. It films glassware, stiffens laundry and collects on everything water touches. The fix: a water softener at the point of entry, sized from your test.
Orange stains in the tub
Iron. It rides in dissolved and invisible, then meets air and becomes the rust color on tubs, toilets and laundry. Most common on wells. The fix: a dedicated iron filter placed ahead of the softener, because iron fed into a softener fouls its resin.
Water that tastes like a pool
Chlorine, still doing its disinfection job at your kitchen tap. Fine in the pipes, unwelcome in the coffee. The fix: carbon filtration, whole house or at the sink with a K5 station.
A rotten egg smell
Hydrogen sulfide gas, almost always on well water, and hard to ignore in even small amounts. It also tarnishes silver and darkens fixtures. The fix: a sulfur filter matched to the level your test shows.
Cloudy or gray water
Fine sediment or a heavy mineral load. A glass that clears from the bottom up is air; one that stays cloudy is not. The test tells us which you have. The fix: sediment filtration sized to the cause.
Several at once
Problems arrive together, especially on wells, and treating them in the wrong order wastes equipment. The fix: one test, then one system designed as a sequence.
The expensive one
What hardness quietly costs
Scale is an insulator. As it coats the elements inside a water heater, the heater works harder and longer to move the same heat, and the energy bill absorbs the difference. Dishwashers, washing machines and coffee makers all live shorter lives on hard water, and they all keep the receipts.
That is why hardness is worth fixing even after you have stopped noticing the spots. The visible part is the cheap part.
On wells
Wells get tested, not guessed
Two wells on the same road can draw noticeably different water. Iron, sulfur and heavy hardness often arrive together, and the order of treatment matters: iron ahead of a softener, sediment ahead of everything. A well system is a sequence, not a single box, and the test is what tells us the sequence.
If you are on a well and unsure what you have, the free test is especially worth your twenty minutes.
Put a name to your water problem.
Free test, written results, and a fix sized to what we actually find.
Prefer to talk? Call (614) 555-0100.